apologies, I didn't explain that well. We get multiple B* files from the banks and the names of the actual B* file changes. However one of the B* files now references two accounts/groups in that file. We want to delete the content of the 2nd account of that original file without changing the name of the original file.
we are wanting to delete lines of texts from one of those B* files . but we cant always say its an exact line number. the /^999-999/d seems to work for deleting that whole line any other lines starting with that reference number.
if I run the following manually it looks ok from the unix prompt
it seems to work, but I don't know how to save it. I tried the $i after the delete as the name but the file didn't save the removed part.
That seems strange. If you run the command:
manually, it will write the modified text of B1234567 to standard output, but it will not save the changes in B1234567.
Using your script format, you can use a temporary file:
To rewrite the files in place on AIX, you can use ed instead of sed:
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